Gah!

Too bad Ann Coulter won’t be enjoying turkey this Thanksgiving, what with her wired shut jaw and everything.

On the other hand, “um…gravy” shouldn’t be a problem for her.

The Cult of Sarah should make the next Republican primary quite entertaining. The fireworks generated from the Republican implosion should be quite spectacular.

That picture is disturbing on so many levels it’s disturbing just contemplating its disturbingness.

I don’t even want to know what you typed into Google image search to find that.

Funny, I just googled “Sarah Palin, pool, Miami” and it came right up.

To be serious for a minute – they really are fucked up over there, and the reaction at The Corner over that Palin turkey video demonstrated it pretty clearly over the last few days. The tough guys at The Corner decided this was a perfect opportunity to mock people who were upset at the video of Palin giving an interview while standing in front of turkeys being slaughtered and decided to turn it into a red state/blue state thing.

These are actual quotes from the last few days at The Corner.

From the always clownish Mark Steyn:

“I didn’t think I could like Sarah Palin more than I do, but the nancy boys at MSNBC bleating all over the screen about the Great Turkey Carnage is hilarious. After she’s sworn in in 2013, I hope President Palin arranges for a ritual turkey slaughter to be going on behind her at every press conference, if only during David Shuster’s questions.”

From a Byron York post headlined: “Sarah and the Vegan Weenies” in which he approvingly quotes this email from a rugged NRO reader:

“Because an increasingly large cohort of America in the lower 48 (and probably Hawaii) are p—-ies. They have no clue where their food comes from, they don’t hunt, they don’t fish, so they get to act all high and mighty about scenes like this. In Alaska, they have critters that consider humans food. Absent high powered rifles, humans are not at the apex of the food chain in Alaska. That will tend to give people a different perspective than the silk pantywaists in the lower 48.”

So there you go, folks – nancy boys, pantywaists and p—ies. (That’s their editing by the way – I guess actually spelling out the word pussies would tarnish William Buckley’s great legacy).

First, put aside the hilarity of Byron fucking York questioning anyone’s manhood, but all of a sudden the great turkey kerfuffle becomes a chance for the he-man club that is NRO and its readers to call liberals a bunch of faggots.

Seriously, what the fuck is wrong with these people?

Listen, I stand second to no-one in my love for animals – but, I admit, I am a hypocrite: I eat meat. I eat chicken. I eat turkey.

I know they have to be killed so that we can eat them. And when you live in a city or suburban setting like most of America does, someone else has to do it.

I hope they are killed humanely, but who knows?

The point is, yes, I am a meat-eating animal loving hypocrite – but, Christ, who wants to actually watch farm animals get killed, even if it is done humanely (and I’m not sure that turkey slaughtering was, but let’s give the benefit of the doubt and assume it was). That’s why people were disturbed at the Palin-turkey video.

But the tough guys at National Review celebrate it and turn it into a cause for merriment and some sort of bizarre political statement. I wonder who they think they are impressing with talk like that?

Yes, it’s hard to believe the Republican party is now based in a rapidly decreasing little sliver of red states in the former Confederacy. And it is strange that Byron York doesn’t leave the gentile confines of Manhattan or Georgetown, or wherever the fuck he gets his hair styled, and move to East Bumfuck, Alabama, so he can work with his hands and maybe even kill some animals.

Hey, K-Lo! You know what really pisses liberals off, I mean really gets their teeth grindin’ and panties twistin’? Eating rat poison.

That’s right, rat poison. It breaks our little hearts to think of those poor pitiful rats lying stiff as a board and makes us so desolate as not to campaign.

So please, please, don’t eat the rat poison, K-Lo! And don’t tell the readers of the Corner too, either! We beg you, DON’T DO IT!

(hey, worth a shot)

i clicked the photo link while eating lunch. you owe me lunch.

Ever wonder why some people don’t see what everyone else sees and, in fact, see the exact opposite? Me too.

As far as I can tell, that was as humane a way to kill a turkey as there is (head in metal cone because to a turkey that’s calming, and then cut the throat and let it bleed out – cutting off the head first causes convulsions). And at least those birds hadn’t been de-beaked and shut up in little cages. They were in a small space, but they could walk on their own legs and move around.

“head in metal cone because to a turkey that’s calming” Heck, someone should try that with Michelle Malkin one day — stick her head in a metal cone, see if it calms her the fuck down a bit… Nope, I didn’t say anything about taking the next step as well. Wouldn’t go there at all.

But your point is what, exactly? That Republicans should use a slaughter operation as a backdrop for their media availability whenever possible? Or that if only Abu Ghraib had featured metal cones it wouldn’t have been so bad? What?

BTW, I meant genteel, of course, not gentile. (Actually, I guess Georgetown is pretty gentile, but not my Manhattan!

Hey, slip a fur coat on that thing, and it’s ready for the Conservative Women in Furs calendar!!

I wonder if Sarah put herself in front of the turkey slaughtering because she knew it would be an easy way to get more publicity and rile up her crazed fans. She certainly loves the spotlight enough. And her fans are looney enough to spin anything she does into some kind of Red State repudiation of the liberals. I’m surprised her shopping spree didn’t turn into thousands of Corner posts about how she wears good solid Red State lingerie, not those freaky liberal thongs.

When I saw the turkey clip my first thought was does disaster follow Sarah everywhere she is? A savvy, experienced politician & handlers would have caught the potential of that backdrop causing a media circus & not let that happen. The Palin fanclub again deliberately miss the point that it was an avoidable media fumble & try to make it a different issue.
Of course, it did distract everyone from noticing that Sarah had absolutely nothing of substance to say as usual.

Didn’t this vid go viral because granting a turkey clemency (a very U.S. Presidential act, likely even in 2012) directly in front a bunch of other turkeys being slaughtered is at best a lame way to look Presidential (I thought it was the R-media geniuses who taught us that it’s all about the visuals, baybee)?

The slaughter part does let Gov. Palin once again play the machita card, and gets Byron, Mr. “we gotta pack cuz we’re not at the top of the food chain up here – hunh!” and others all het up. But at this rate she’ll peak waay before November 2012.

Heck, who wouldn’t find it comforting to have my head jammed down into a metal cone.

Wow, you maverick,
Eating a fucking turkey.
Break those rules again!

For me, it was the twitching.

“Palin Increases Turkey Sales ” Okay, lets think about this. This one douchebag and his presumably douchebaggy wife are one data point. How many people viewed that and thought, maybe we’ll skip the turkey? What are the odds that PETA membership goes up? They will probably be giving Sarah some kind of recognition for highlighting the cruelty of us carnivores.

These people surprise me everyday with their stupidity.

A single data point doesn’t indicate a trend, K-Lo, you ninny.

However, this is another data point in favor of the hypothesis that the distilled wingnut political ideology is merely pissing off liberals.

My point had nothing to do with Palin, just someone above was unsure whether this was a humane way to slaughter turkeys.

I eat meat, and I wasn’t bothered by the video itself (just more proof that Palin is a camera whore and an idiot), but I prefer to eat meat that is raised and killed humanely, too. These turkeys, from what I could see, aren’t raised free range, but their life and death looked more humane than many factory farms are. That was all.

It’s been said before and elsewhere, right now the entirety of conservative ideology is “this pisses off liberals, therefore it must be good.” that’s it. sum total. weak sauce x weak gravy.

i’m with little pig up above. time to convince conservatives that we really hate it when people eat rat poison. these idiot fucks.

The point is, yes, I am a meat-eating animal loving hypocrite

Have you considered writing a turkey snuff film screenplay?

Ouch!

That took the wind out my election day sail. Someone’s gonna buy a turkey and eat it.

Sigh…

(Look, if the only political acts they have left are wearing mink and eating turkey, let them think it means something. Maybe they’ll keep their hands off the economy.)

It’s been said before, but bears repeating: everything they do is out of spite. Don’t really like turkey, but will eat it anyway to piss off liberals, who won’t really be pissed off but amused, very amused?

… we went shopping for a Thanksgiving/Christmas turkey and will thoroughly enjoy every bite.

This bozo and his wife are going to buy just one turkey and then consume it over the course of the month between Thanksgiving and Christmas? They must not have much appetite. Maybe Sarah’s snuff flick put them off their feed …

Oh, and I do hope they remember to freeze what they don’t eat right away. After a few weeks, that bird’s likely to be pretty dangerous otherwise, also. You betcha.

For me, it’s not about turkey slaughter being disturbing, it’s about the incoherence.

This is a pretty humane way to kill a turkey, btw. Cutting the carotid artery produces a virtually instant drop in blood pressure and unconsciousness.

I’m surprised her shopping spree didn’t turn into thousands of Corner posts about how she wears good solid Red State lingerie, not those freaky liberal thongs.

Funny… I always thought thong underwear was what conservative trophy wives wore to impress the pool boy, gardener, contractor….

O Tbogg, if you think the Corner is whack when it comes to Sarah Palin’s little turkey episode, get a load of this. I’m not even going to reproduce it here, your readers can follow the link. Where else can you find a discussion of Sarah Palin, turkey killing, abortion, Rachel Maddow, Keith Olbermann, the Huffington Post, Jesus and the Second Coming all wrapped up together in some sort of whacked-out package. Why, right there, of course.

I’d be tempted to blow this guy off as a fringe whackaloon, but he’s the new Executive Director of TheCall, you know, that outfit that had the big Christianist rally for Prop 8 on Nov. 1 at Qualcomm Stadium in your fair city. So, whackaloon he may be, but his group can rent a stadium for a day and run a show, so cannot be dismissed out of hand.

Yikes.

Over at the mothership is a discussion about ideology versus pragmatism. Faith, no matter how blind, trumps ‘em both.

I think you are all are missing the point. This is not about what they say at The Corner, only about the grade level.

For example, suppose you pass a group of school kids waiting for the bus in your neighborhood. A boy and girl are outside the main group, talking. Two boys are loudly teasing the pair with “Jim and Katy make a porno!” Katy’s friends yell back, “Shut up, Dumb and Dumber!”

Do you critique each faction’s logic? Do you analyze details of both sides of the argument? No. Given that all these children live in your neighborhood and all go to the same school, the only really pertinent question is, “What grade are they in?”

Likewise at The Corner: for this particular bit of moronic nonsense about the turkeys, I rate K-Lo at “sixth grade bully, either gender.” The corresponding non-bully sixth grade response, often from a girl, would be “Ooooh! poor turkey!”

What grade level would you give Ms. Lopez for her brilliant turkey talk?

What is notable, and typical, about this kerfuffle is the astonishing misreading Cornerites a doing about the whole issue. David Shuster was not scandalized by the turkey slaughter – he was ridiculing it. It was the funniest thing on the tubes in ages. Palin sets up this butch rural tableau and stands there and prattles on with no self-awareness that the whole shtick was ridiculous. Nobody gave a damn about the turkey, at least nobody I could find commenting on the the interview.

Yet for the Cornerites, we are pussies because we can’t stand the sight of blood? Chickenhawks Inc. talks about other people being scared of the sight of blood?

These people don’t even know we are laughing at them.

Clicked through the link I and I couldn’t help noticing NRO’s “please, please, please give us money” bleg.

Um, why? If you are so successful in the “marketplace of ideas,” shouldn’t y’all be rolling in the dough right now? And enjoying a trifecta in the House, Senate, and White House?

Um, you’re not? And Big Daddy Buckley-Bucks isn’t around to bail you out/mask your failure any longer?

Sarah’s turkey slaughter was the most serendipitous visual metaphor I’ve seen in years.

What the heck is a Thanksgiving/Christmas turkey Is he going to cook it on Thanksgiving and eat it on Christmas?

I just picked up this year’s free range organic turkey, killed with at least a sense of regret, quickly and humanely. The husband loves turkey with a white hot passion (I dare not show him this posting’s photo) so I make it occassionally; I’m not all that excited about animal protein anymore but hey, life’s a compromise.

Sarah and the turkey killer was beyond weird though; I really have to think she is so used to slaughter and gutting food animals that it never crossed what passes for her mind that some of us lower 48 pussies would find it a bit….icky.

After getting slaughtered on Nov. 4th, the Cornerites et ilk are doubling down — here come the turkeyhawks!

Digg it right here!

What is tripto?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T…..drowsiness

One widely-held belief is that heavy consumption of turkey meat (as for example in a Thanksgiving or Christmas feast) results in drowsiness, which has been attributed to high levels of tryptophan contained in turkey.[47][48][49] While turkey does contain high levels of tryptophan, the amount is comparable to that contained in most other meats.[14] Furthermore, postprandial Thanksgiving sedation may have more to do with what is consumed along with the turkey, in particular carbohydrates and alcohol, rather than the turkey itself.

Generally, a headline such as X increases turkey sales is followed by statistical evidence. That said, given the gal’s girth, she may require ten times the amount. Still wouldn’t make a dent though.

If an ad ever appears for an “unprofessional ignoramus whose appetite is enhanced by torture videos” comes up, I’ll be sure to forward her resume.

She’s so fucking dumb I don’t know whether to slap her or feel sorry for her. Is it possible to do both at the same time?

damn the extra words.

Oh shit, I guess I’m dumb. I thought K-Lo wrote that. Needless to say, she probably agrees with it.

Gawd I hope that’s not a webcam view of the tanning bed at the grafty Palin bourgeois bungalow.

The editor in me can’t help but suggest that the title should have been “El Tripto Fans”…sorry, occupational hazard.

One turkey, eh? Wow, Palin just single-handedly saved the whole fucking economy.

Also, thanks.

The photographer asked her if she’d like it shot from a different vantage. She was too stupid to move it even then! Dang, I’m starting to feel sorry for her.

ok, that was a rolling series of belly laughs.

Irvine housing blog uses it for the term “turnkey”. Goes nicely with the gourmet kitchens.

At least there will be no dinner-time lectures about children in China who would love to have a shit sandwich, so stop your sniveling, eat your dinner, and pass the, um… gravy.

When I used to visit my grandmother at the nursing home, the inmates residents would begin queuing up to take the elevator to the cafeteria at about 11:30 a.m.. As I was leaving one day, I passed one of my grandmother’s neighbors, I said “bye” and told her I hoped she’d have a good lunch. She looked at me scornfully and spat, “They hired three goddamned new cooks who don’t know SHIT from apple-butter!” If she’d used a phrase like “shit from shinola” I’d have been okay but the unexpected visual reference to apple-butter left me momentarily speechless. I told her I’d try to have a talk with them on my way out but just to be on the safe side, she should avoid eating anything she couldn’t readily identify.

…give thanks this Thursday that Sarah Palin wasn’t photographed stepping out of a porta-john.

Oh come on. Everyone likes fudge.

Around the corner…a tangy citrus beverage!

werez mitt when you need him!

a public service announcement: any readers here who did not see Jane Hamsher on The Rachel Maddow Show tonight, please go downstairs to the previous (FDL) thread and check out the video. And then please take a moment to Digg Suzanne’s post, so we can send it into Digg orbit and get Jane some additional screentime. If you haven’t Dugg before, there’s always a first time! Just click on the Digg button and follow the directions. Thanks!

Superman’s lesser known dog. He’s a bit clumsy.

With any luck, K-Lo’s email buds will completely screw up the cooking part and end up spending Black Friday on the john with the screaming shits.

Personally, I hope that couple makes this turkey last until Christmas, so they can experience first hand healthcare in George Bush’s America.